Definition of "bangle"

bangle¹

/ˈbæŋ.ɡəl/

noun
plural bangles
1. A rigid bracelet or anklet, especially one with no clasp.
  Quotations
  Mrs. MacAndrew smoothed down the lap of her gown, and gold bangles fell over her wrists.
  1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “ch. 15”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […]

bangle²

/ˈbæŋ.ɡəl/

verb
third-person singular simple present bangles, present participle bangling, simple past and past participle bangled
1. (transitive, obsolete) to beat about or beat down, as corn by the wind.
2. (obsolete or dialectal) to waste away little by little; squander carelessly; fritter (away).
  Quotations
  Thus betwixt hope and fear, suspicions, angers […] betwixt falling in, falling out, etc., we bangle away our best days, befool out our times […].
  1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps
3. (intransitive) (falconry) to beat about in the air; flutter: said of a hawk which does not rise steadily and then swoop down upon its prey.
4. (intransitive) to flap or hang down loosely, as a hat brim or an animal's ear.

bangle³

/ˈbæŋ.ɡəl/

noun
plural bangles
1. (dialectal) The cut branch of a tree; a large, rough stick; the largest piece of wood in a bundle of twigs